Help, My G4 Is Acting Very Strangely

[lapis 0]

Hi,Something very weird is happing to my G4 Tower lately because each time I restart it, something has changed....... for no reason. Eg: the wallpaper and screen savers disappeared; my Entourage email suddenly began reproducing new Main Identity pages at a rate of 1 per second and wouldn't allow me to access any of them; and all of my Dashboard items have been changed. Can anyone work-out what is going on and/or what the cure is? Many thanks

[ethergeek 0]

Try creating a new user account and logging in with that. If that works, it's a user-level issue, just grab your files from the other user and trash it. If not, well, time to find your OS X disc

[xboxrulz1405241485 0]

Sounds like the user directory is out of whack. The problems you listed aren't system anomalies. Try ethergeek's suggestion. If it doesn't work, please feel free to reply!xboxrulz

[unimatrix 0]

Creating a new user account usually fixes these type of problems. This one had a problem with the dock crashing on start up...creating a new user account and trashing the old one worked.

[lapis 0]

Many thanks to all of you for your advice. It is much appreciated and, no doubt I will be back again soon seeking your help.

[jtmcpherson 0]

here's what you should do. -open up a new finder window-navigate to wherever your applications are saved usually your applications folder....-open up utilites and then navigate to disk utitility-click on the disk that you're using and then press repair permissions then reboot and see what happens-believe it or not this is a fix for alot of things surrounding macsif that does'nt work-have you installed any new apps lateley?-any new .kexts?-any intel only parts-has someone else used your computer?-did your computer come in contact with a magnet?-is your computer used as a server or in a public place?-are you prepared to format your hard drive if nessescary?-did you get any new peripherals?-hardware?-any parts on the inside or outside of your computer?-spill something on your computer?-cause physical trauma to the computer itself eg. dropping , kicking , punching , throwing , hitting biting , throwing things at the case , making it fall , pushing it around etc.-have you moved homes recently?-do you have kids?if you ask yourself those questions above i'm sure you'll find what you're looking for.